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Contemplate Christ to understand God and man, Pope tells AI conference participants (CWN)

Posted on 05/22/2026 03:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Pope Leo XIV today addressed participants in a Vatican conference on artificial intelligence, told them that the Church’s primary concern is the eternal salvation of every human person, and said that contemplation of Christ is the means to come to the truth about God and man.

Cuba's suffering has never been greater, leading prelate says (CWN)

Posted on 05/22/2026 03:05 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

The president of the Cuban Bishops’ Conference said that “Cuba is suffering” and that “this is the saddest and most difficult time that I am aware of in the history of my people.”

Reclaiming the Word ‘Homemaker’

Posted on 05/22/2026 02:56 AM (The Daily Register)

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May. 22 Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Rita of Cascia, Religious, Opt. Mem.

Posted on 05/22/2026 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Rita Cascia (1386-1457). After eighteen years of married life, St. Rita lost, by death, her husband and her two sons. Called afterwards to the religious state, she professed the Rule of St. Augustine at Cascia her native town, in central Italy. In a life-long and terrible malady her patience, cheerfulness, and union by prayer with almighty God, never failed her. Jesus imprinted on her brow the mark of a thorn from His crown. She died May 22, 1456, and both in life and after death has worked many miracles. She was not canonized until 1900 by Pope Leo XIII.